Educate, Inspire, Empower

2018 ANNUAL REPORT “It’s been an immensely rewarding experience The ThinkTank also organizes events to further to see the attitudes of some of the staff go its goals of learning and sharing knowledge to from ‘I can’t do research!’ to ‘I can’t wait to improve academic practices worldwide. do research!” said Dr Andrew Bell, Prowibo Our first conference, in partnership with the lecturer in Uganda. Letter From Gulf Futures Center and Bridge the Gulf, was held in September at the London School Andrew and Chandni have tremendously of Economics. Over two days, we debated increased faculty and student capacity. the shape of education for the 21st Century The key function area of research will have with students from high school to university, tangible results this academic year. academics, policy makers, entrepreneurs The Founders and business sector leaders. More than 50 The outputs will be shared as they emerge. attendees contributed their experience and If there is any way we can have the two back knowledge with a full house throughout the event. A written report of the event will be next summer, this would organically address published shortly with more research papers In 2018, we were supported by We had our first summer school in India new areas that emerged as they facilitated.” following closely. this year, thanks to our partnership with 12 lecturers, 7 volunteers and Ben Niwagaba the US-Alhambra Chamber of Commerce “Amazing and inspiring event! It was such 5 interns to deliver 4 international and the wonderful support of Anjum Malik. Faculty Dean of African Rural University summer schools and an Our team of women lecturers taught courses a pleasure to meet so many interesting and Our program in Thailand was expanded likeminded people!” education conference in London. in Design Thinking, Communications and Public Speaking, and Civil Society to 50 this year into a full week of teaching at Our reach has grown massively students at the Karamat Husain Muslim Girls Srinakharinwirot University. Georgiana Epure Keira Townsend, attendee since Professors Without Borders College in Lucknow. We also partnered up with from the University of Leeds led an interactive None of these accomplishments could was founded three years ago. the Sadbhavana Trust, a local organisation that class on the Sustainable Development Goals. have taken place without the dedication empowers women by offering community- Students were encouraged to critically and support of our team, in particular Ena based classes and resources. Our lecturers engage with topics such as inequality, human Vukovic and Richard Adams who have been In Sierra Leone, we delivered courses on worked with 20 women to create bespoke development, gender stereotypes, feminism champions of Professors Without Borders and clinical public health to 130 midwives and courses on public speaking and problem and discrimination, identity and violence. We helped us take great strides this past year. nurses at the College of Medicine and Health solving for businesses. The team in Lucknow have been invited to return next summer with Yanoh Jalloh, Mary Sullivan and Alexandria Services, in partnership with the Nursing and was our most international yet, with Suzanne more professors and organize an academic Trabosch also deserve special recognition Midwifery Board in Freetown. Four lecturers Stein (OCAD University) flying in from Toronto conference on Sustainable Education at SWU. for the many hours of work poured into the offered lessons in finance, politics and law Canada, Philippa Mullins (LSE) joining us from summer schools and conference this year. Our at the Institute of Public Administration and “Many students told me that they don’t have Moscow, Russia, and Rachel Warnick (SOAS) new Board of Advisors, many thanks for your Management, reaching over 250 students in many opportunities to speak freely, in a public coming in from Mauritius. guidance. Last but not least, the lecturers who two weeks. We also partnered up with 50/50 but safe space about such themes”. Georgiana have donated their time and passion with our Group’s Gender and Women’s Leadership “It was my first attempt to give a speech to Epure, Prowibo lecturer in Thailand. students and the partner institutions that have Training Institute, where we offered workshops juniors and professors. I was really nervous Our new ThinkTank Without Borders, headed welcomed them with open hearts and shared to engage the community and increase the because my friend, who is an outstanding by creative genius Richard Adams, was born their thirst for learning with all of us. political participation and equal representation student, forgot the line on her topic and this this year to share our learning and experience of women in decision-making processes and increased my heartbeat fast and shook my with practitioners around the world. The 2018 has been a spectacular year that has initiatives at all levels in Sierra Leone. hands, thinking about what will happen with goal is to publish articles on education raised the bar for the future. We can finally me now? Well, I breathed deeply and went on and development and make them freely announce that Professors Without Borders has the stage and gave a speech and thanked my available to the general public. This year, we achieved charity status, putting the onus on us juniors who gave me glowing feedback and published a first paper authored by Yanoh to accelerate our fundraising efforts in order to thanks to Rachel, who motivated me.” Jalloh from New York Institute of Technology reach even more communities and enable our Andleeb, student in India. and Mucktarr Raschid from Fourah Bay many enthusiastic academics to be of service Our return to African Rural University in College, analyzing the effects of Ebola on the all over the world. We look forward to this next Uganda this year was the cherry on the cake. higher education sector in Sierra Leone. The stage of our development. With Andrew Bell from the University of second paper considers the determinants Many thanks to all our contributors of academic performance from a behavioral Oxford and University of Cambridge, Janet and supporters, Bultitude from Bath University (joining science approach and is authored by Gabriel “My time with the 50/50 Group, who the program virtually) and Chandni Hirani, Inchausti, Professor in Behavioural Economics Caroline Varin, Tessy de Nassau pursue gender equality through training a Kenyan entrepreneur and researcher at in Uruguay. Two further papers are expected to and Majeks Walker and advocacy, was one of the most the LSE, we offered lessons in negotiations, be completed and published by Christmas. inspiring 3 hours of my entire life” entrepreneurship, decision-making, psychology and academic skills to 35 women Lecturer Sabrina White students. Andrew also led workshops with the from the University of Leeds, UK. 15 ARU staff on research methods. 7 volunteers 5 interns FROM RICHMOND In Numbers 6 advisors UNIVERSITY 3 co-founders 3 new partners

2 workshops WITH LOCAL NGOs

4 countries 350 students

70 attendees 28 speakers 12 educators ATTENDED OUR CONFERENCE £14,821.04 total expenses Our Work

Professors Without Borders is a social enterprise that brings quality short courses to universities around the world. Inspired by the Summer Schools model from the London School of Economics, we recruit the best and brightest teachers, professionals and academics, and raise the funds to place them in institutions of higher education where they run academic workshops for 1-2 weeks. We focus on building local capacity through education, encouraging students and faculty to reach their potential using their immediate resources.

We share our teaching experience and best practice through our own Think Tank Without Borders and conduct research to continually improve and tailor our offering to local needs. The Skillset

Too often, students graduate from university ill-equipped for their first job: unable to work in teams, lacking confidence to take initiatives and finding feedback difficult to endure. Furthermore, the high level of youth unemployment leaves students from most countries sitting on their diplomas and skillset. We help prepare students for the real world, focusing on presentation, writing and analytical skills, getting them used to working in teams and giving and receiving feedback. We aim to build confidence in each student so that they can take their talents and put them to use as an employee or as an entrepreneur.

To achieve our objectives, we focus on skill-building. This includes analysis, presentation and writing skills, teamwork and confidence-building. These skills are in high demand in most professions and we also want to prepare our students to be high-achieving contributors to society, whether through their own entrepreneurial “We help prepare students for the vision or when working with a company. Our professors are specialists in their fields and excited to share their real world, focusing on presentation, love for learning with their students. writing and analytical skills, getting them used to working in teams and giving and receiving feedback.” Our Impact

• Participated in a staff workshop on qualitative Chandni Hirani, research methods where I contributed based on Volunteer Lecturer in Uganda my experience with thematic analysis. • Led the Foundation Course session for all staff and Chandni is an entrepreneur from Kenya students at ARU and URDT introducing Prowibo and a researcher at the London School of and its programs. Economics. She has a degree in Engineering • There was a lot of interest to learn about and in Entrepreneurship. Negotiations from ARU and URDT staff so I led a Foundation Course session introducing everyone • 5 classes on negotiation skills to the ideas of Game Theory using some videos. • 3 classes on (social) entrepreneurship • I got to know the students quite well and helped a few of them one-on-one in a number of things: • 2 classes on developing and conducting community actions steps for an NGO a student wanted to workshops - resulted in students leading a practical start, assisting a student with the YALI Fellowship agriculture workshop in the farm. I was also able to application, and helping a student prepare for a help students improve their sack farming as it was solo presentation in Foundation Course. failing and I have experience and knowledge on this farming method. • 3 part class on preparing for a field data collection, conducting field data collection and presenting findings from the field. • Students and myself participated on a news segment for the Kagadi Community Radio to talk about the community concerns discovered during the field study. Students now use their weekly designated radio show to further develop and open the dialogue on the identified issues. • Contributed in a session for the ARU and URDT credit unions to understand some of their challenges and provided some input and suggestions for improvement based on my experience and knowledge. Our Vision

Professors Without Borders aims to bridge the educational divide between countries, as well as between students and their teachers. We aspire to halt the brain drain by bringing teachers in rather than taking students out.

We are student focused and course agnostic. We build professional and academic skills while encouraging students to grow in confidence. Our vision is to create a global community of academics and professionals who want to share their passion for knowledge with students around the world.

“Bridge the educational divide between countries, as well as between students and their teachers.” Our Values

1. 2. 4. Progress Innovation Fun

There is no development without education. Education is As a professional program Education should be fun. the fastest and most beneficial investment a government can with long-term goals, we are Students who enjoy learning make in the future of its country. Our teachers contribute to the committed to innovating and become self-motivated to teach individual success of each student and thereby to the progress integrating new teaching themselves in the long-term. of the countries in which we work. techniques and technology wherever possible. 3. 5. Security Integrity

We will not expose our staff to Education is also about sharing unnecessary risks. We only go to values such as honesty and countries where we have local fairness. Integrity is at the very support and that we have visited core of what we stand for. Our ourselves. We aim to work as lecturers are contributing their partners with local universities time to the organisation and all and will not develop a program our efforts must be met with in any place that we have not local support to ensure the long- personally investigated to ensure term success of our program. the safety of our teachers. For all our programs, we take out insurance for our professors and for ourselves. Our story We work with funders and local businesses to establish the recruitment needs in each country – tailoring our courses to meet the on-the-ground needs. Each student receives a custom-made textbook Why we’re different that includes all readings for the course. Our students are young adults, preparing Our staff are generally trained in-house for free, for their professional careers. They are as adhere to our vision of education, and have important skills or knowledge to pass on. We allow well-educated as their environment allows our professors a high level of autonomy in how and have a desire to push their education they teach the courses, as we believe that academic further. We can focus in on expanding their freedom is integral to providing the high-level of knowledge-base and teaching them critical education we seek. thinking skills, which will set them up well Their transportation, accommodation, visas and for the start of their careers or further insurance are fully paid for. educational pursuits. We conduct in-depth monitoring and post- mission assessments to ensure a continuous All our professors are volunteers. They donate their learning process. time, but not their money. Their transport and accommodation are fully paid for by Professors Without Borders. This ensures the quality and motivation of our teachers. Teaching is more than a volunteer experience, it is a passion that can be shared by academics and professionals alike. We require our educators to be experienced and skilled, but this does not require a PhD! Our classrooms are capped at 25 students, offering space and time for personal feedback. We further break down our classrooms into smaller discussion groups so everybody has a chance to construct their own points of view and learn how to express them and to listen to others. Our Staff

Philippa Mullins Dr Andrew Bell Civil Society, Social Groups and Communities Cognitive and Social Psychology

Philippa Mullins is a researcher at the London School Dr Andrew Bell is a Senior Investigator Scientist of Economics. Her PhD looks at civil society activity with the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, around disability in present-day Russia. She holds University of Cambridge, and Lecturer with the an MSc with Distinction in Social Policy (Research) Department of Experimental Psychology at the from the LSE and a BA in Modern Languages University of Oxford. He did his undergraduate (French and Russian) from the University of Oxford. degree in Basic Medical Sciences and Doctorate in She has previously worked as a researcher at the EU Physiology at Queen’s University in Canada. From Fundamental Rights Agency, Policy Lab at the UK there, he completed his post-doctoral studies at the Cabinet Office, and in various NGOs based primarily National Institute of Mental Health in the United in Russia and the UK. This is the second year that she States before relocating to the United Kingdom. taught with Prowibo, having taught the course on Dr. Bell teaches a number of subjects including civil society at the African Rural University in Uganda psychology, statistics, and neuroscience. He also in 2017. Philippa is also an avid fencer currently on contributes to teacher training at the University of the Great Britain Senior Women‘s Fencing team. She Oxford, and in 2013 was made Fellow of the Higher taught a course titled “Understanding Civil Society” Education Academy. Dr. Bell taught at African Rural at Karamat Girl’s P.G. College in India in August 2018. University in Uganda a course titled Why we think what we think (about others) – An Introduction to Cognitive and Social Psychology and also led research seminars for faculty at ARU. Our Courses we offered in 2018

India Thailand Sierra Leone Uganda • Civil Society • Gender and • Global Finance • Negotiation Skills Development – • Communications Public Speaking Course • Clinical Public Health • Why we think what we think (Cognitive • Design Thinking • Peace in Pieces: Psychology) unpacking decision- making in interventions • Research Skills for academia

• Entrepreneurship Skills Beyond the In 2019, the career development page is going to be transformed as Ellie Danak, from the University of Edinburgh, is taking over the task summer of creating unique material to help our students and the wider community in their academic and professional journey. In addition, our alumni networks on Facebook enable students and lecturers to communicate, engage in debates, post information relevant to them and bridge the cultural divide as they Our career development page develop relationships with students from our summer programmes in other countries. We Although most of our work takes place also advertise scholarship and studentship during the summer schools by the professors opportunities on this forum. in-country, we do our best to maintain relationships with the institutions and students after we leave. For this reason, we have created a career development page to give targeted advice to students, lecturers and researchers. Such topics include career advice from Jacqueline Akello from our partner university African Rural University in Uganda; free software resources to support research, learning and teaching; tips on CV and essay writing; and scholarship information for students to pursue further studies. Funding

£14,821 £14,821

Country Expenses Breakdown Expenses

India £2,778 Flights £9,025 Uganda £3,684 Accommodation £3,348 Thailand £749 Visas £459 Sierra Leone £7,610 Insurance £272 Other £1,716 Carrier 904.71 GBP Philippa flight; Donations 1342.71 USD Suzanne flight Srinakharinwirot University covered all the costs for accommodation, transportation and food in-country

African Rural University covered all the costs for accommodation, transportation and food in-country

Gulf Futures Center £20,000 covered costs for the conference on Higher Education in the Age of Transformation

Bridge the Gulf covered the costs for the Women in Higher Education event launch and a £5,000 donation towards the conference and 2019 summer schools.

Fund Raiser £7,000

Private Donor £8,000 Milestones

August July First Summer School at Srinakharinwirot Summer University in Thailand School at IPAM First Summer School at African Rural in Freetown, University in Uganda Sierra Leone

September July First Conference on Summer Higher Education September in the Age of Schools in Bo Partnership with January Transformation and Freetown, Gulf Future Center March Sierra Leone Opening our Launch of the Registered as recruitment for Launch of ThinkTank Women in Higher a company second year of Without Borders Education Initiative summer schools

August 2016 April 2017 2018 First Summer Recruitment July School at Karamat of our Summer February Husain Muslim Girls first team of School at Winter College in Lucknow professors Fourah Bay Fundraising September College in Event in India 2016 First Freetown, London, UK Summer School at Annual Review Sierra Leone Srinakharinwirot November University in 2016 Second Thailand Annual Review Summer School at African Rural University in Uganda ThinkTank Without Borders

The Think Tank was launched to share our Titles of our published papers so far: learning and experience with the teaching community beyond our summer schools. • The impact of the Ebola outbreak on tertiary Headed first by Rachel Godin then by institutions in Sierra Leone (26/4/18) Yanoh Jalloh and Mucktarr Raschid Richard Adams, the Think Tank has published three papers and is expecting another • Determinants of Academic Performance, two in 2018. So far, Research Associates A Behavioural Science Approach (06/7/18) have been mostly recruited from our staff Gabriel Inchausti and students and those of the London • The Impact of Faculty Diversity on School of Economics and Richmond, Graduation Rates (10/18) the American University in London. Samantha Fu We are very proud that our first research paper was authored by Yanoh Jalloh, our lecturer in Sierra Leone in 2017, and one of her students Mucktarr Raschid from Fourah Bay College in Freetown. Women in Higher Education Initiative

Professors Without Borders has recently launched a Women in Higher Education Initiative. This fits with our track-record of partnering with all-women colleges (in India and Uganda) and organizations (in India and Sierra Leone) and encouraging investment in women’s education.

Using our experience and network, we aim to support universities with the following three objectives: • Recruitment of women students in institutions of higher education • Retention of women students in university degrees • Offering more programs for women in higher education. In 2019, we also plan to expand our summer school Moving programmes to another 2-3 institutions. We have been approached to build a second programme in India and in Thailand; work in South Africa to offer free short courses in Cape Town; and explore the possibility of working in refugee camps. forward An endowment of £100,000 per year enables us to hire one staff member and run up to 14 summer schools at an estimated cost of £5,000 per programme. This covers the flights of up to 3 2019+ lecturers, their accommodation, visa and insurance. We intend to expand our geographical reach in Africa and Asia first, capitalising on our experience and existing relationships in the region. The Middle East is likely to be our next port of call as we continue Our mission for 2019 is to raise £100,000. to work closely with our partners in the Gulf region. This will cover the costs of our 4 summer schools for the next three years (£44,139). Once this initial sum is secure, we will officially employ our first Programmes Coordinator (full time £25,000 estimated salary).

This employee will be responsible for day to day management of the organisation, coordinating the logistics for the summer schools and developing the media strategy under the leadership of Richard Adams, our head of communications. This will free up the co- founders to focus more on fund raising, training and recruitment, and building new partnerships. Founder Dr Caroline Varin Co-founder of Professors Without Borders; Programs Director

Caroline Varin holds a PhD in International Relations and an MSc in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics, Biographies an LLM in International Law from the Universita di Bologna, Italy, and a BA in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania. She has worked as a lecturer, a mentor and a tutor in Europe and the UK, the United States and in Central America. Caroline is passionate about education and finding new ways to stimulate and encourage students. Caroline has experience managing projects, organizing conferences and developing communication strategies for a variety of clients and sectors in Africa, the Middle East and Europe. She has also written a wide variety of articles on international security issues, has three books in print and regularly consults with governments and academic institutions. Caroline has lectured at Regent’s University London, Richmond University, and Princess Tessy de Nassau the London School of Economics among others. Co-founder of Professors Without Borders; Director of Logistics Majeks Walker Tessy de Nassau holds an MSc in International Studies and Diplomacy from SOAS and is Director of VICE Impact and Special Co-founder of Professors Without Borders; Director of Operations Projects for the whole EMEA (MENA) regions. She has extensive experience in informal and formal diplomacy as Majeks Walker has taught and practiced law since 2004. He has well as public representation. an LLM from UCL (Banking Law, Conflict of Law, Corporate Law and Law of Foreign Investment in Emerging Economies), and a Tessy is an ambassador for UNAIDS (Global Advocate for Young Certificate in Law Teaching. He was called to the Bar in England and Women and Adolescent Girls), and has been appointed patron to Wales in 2006, and is a qualified SPP Mediator. Majeks has taught UNA-UK. law at Kaplan, and the University of Greenwich. He has also taught Tessy spent five years in the military, where she was deployed Criminology and Psychology at Royal Holloway University of London. in Kosovo as a peacekeeper and detached to the Luxembourg He currently lectures law at undergraduate and postgraduate level at Commission and Embassy both in Geneva and London. Tessy University of Westminster, and at Regent’s University London. He is a actively promotes a number of issues including global health seasoned corporate trainer, and provides advice and training to many and women’s rights. She is passionate about development and multinational companies and sovereign states on various legal issues. has committed her time and energy to furthering the work of Majeks also does a range of philanthropic work, including helping to organizations in which she believes. give a voice to those that cannot afford legal representation. prowibo.com

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